Career Advice Journal

The interview is the only time you hold any real power. You are a valuable asset they are considering acquiring. Once you sign the contract, that power dynamic flips.

Long-shot jobs? Ambitious titles? Companies I’d never heard of? Apply, apply, apply. It was a way to turn that helpless, angry energy into action, even if it was chaotic.

One of the biggest lies we tell ourselves is that remote work is all about productivity. And yeah, I guess it can be. You can get a lot done when there’s no one there to interrupt you.

The truth is hard. Most remote jobs are not fully remote. They are a new model of work. A model of controlled flexibility. It has its benefits. It has its costs.

Your resume isn’t a history of your life. It’s a marketing document. And the product is you—your skills, your accomplishments, your potential.

It’s your chance to prove you’re not a robot, especially now that—let’s be honest—many people are probably using AI to write their first drafts.

The inbox filled up. Not with stories of professional hurdles, but with scenes of pure, uncut strangeness. A collection of moments so bizarre they had to be true.

It’s a strange new world, this work-from-home life. A glorious, chaotic, pajama-clad frontier. And if you’re living it, you know some truths to be self-evident.

Your goal isn’t to squeeze every last penny out of them until they’re weeping into their spreadsheets. Your goal is to find a number that makes you both happy.

We’re being given a chance to offload the most boring, robotic parts of our jobs to actual robots, freeing up our very human and very brilliant brains.

To apply for something when you are not “100% qualified” is an act of profound courage. It is an act of faith in the unseen parts of yourself.

Productivity isn’t linear. It’s a series of peaks and valleys. The real challenge of remote work is learning to ride those waves instead of fighting them.

My first remote job interview was a slow, agonizing 47-minute bleed-out in unforgiving HD from my spare bedroom.